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Collection: United Steel Workers Union, Local 285, Records

Title: United Steel Workers Union, Local 285, Records

Object ID: MG0514

Date Range: 1934-1990

230 North President Avenue • Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603-3125 717.392.4633 • www.LancasterHistory.org United Steel Workers Union, Local 285, Records, 1934-1990 Object ID: MG0514 8 boxes 206 folders 6 cubic ft. Repository: LancasterHistory (Organization); PV7 Shelving Location: Archives South

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Collection: United Steel Workers Union, Local 285, Records

Title: United Steel Workers Union, Local 285, Records

Description: The United Steel Workers Union, Local 285, Records contain minutes of union meetings, negotiations with Armstrong Cork Company and Kerr Group, Inc., publications of Local 285 and Armstrong, correspondence with national union representatives, union flyers and other documents related to labor issues and strikes at Armstrong.

Date Range: 1934-1990

Year Range From: 1934

Year Range To: 1990

Date of Accumulation: 1934-1990

Creator: United Steelworkers of America. Local 285 (Lancaster, Pa.)

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 11

Subjects: Business records; Labor unions; Labor unions--Records and correspondence; Letters; Minutes (Records); Newsletters; United Steelworkers of America. Local 285 (Lancaster, Pa.)

Search Terms: Armstrong Cork Company; Business records; Correspondence; Finding aids; Kerr Group, Inc.; Labor unions; Letters; Manuscript groups; Minutes; Newsletters; United Steel Workers Union, Local 285

Extent: 8 boxes, 206 folders, 6 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0514

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Related Item Notes: Armstrong World Industries Collection (MG0032); Kerr Group, Inc. and Armstrong Cork Company Architectural Drawings, 1916-1992 (MG0372); Photograph Collection

Notes: This finding aid is a box list showing folder titles in order to make the collection available to researchers. The documents within the folders have not yet been cataloged at the item level. LancasterHistory replaced the folders with acid-free archival folders and retained the original folder titles. The newsletters, Local 285 Spotlight and Floor Plant Journal, were organized and placed in folders.; Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), United Steel Workers Union, Local 285, Records (MG0514), Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Access Conditions / Restrictions: This collection is not fully cataloged, but may be used by appointment. Please contact research@lancasterhistory.org at least two weeks prior to visit.

Copyright: Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@LancasterHistory.org.; Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Accession Number: 2009.MG0514

Other Numbers: MG-514

Classification: MG0514

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Box list prepared by FM, 2010. Added to database 12 March 2022.

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The ironmasters of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania : including Henry Steigel, Robert Coleman, the Grubb dynasty, Henry Haldeman, Henry Watts, and many others

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19835

Author: Martin, Richard E.

Date of Publication: [2014]; Â©2014

Call Number: 672 M382

Responsibility: by Richard E. Martin.

ISBN: 9780615967578; 0615967574

Author: Martin, Richard E.

Place of Publication: [Lancaster County, Pennsylvania]; Morgantown, PA

Publisher: Richard E. Martin,; Printed by Masthof Press

Date of Publication: [2014]; Â©2014

Physical Description: vi, 193 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 23 cm

Notes: "Over 120 illustrations."; Includes bibliographical references (171-172) and index.

Contents: Labor on the plantation -- Charcoal making -- Furnaces operation -- Refining the iron -- Lancaster furnaces -- Rolling mills -- Ironworks sequence -- The ironmasters -- Ore mines -- Preserved iron furnaces -- Paths and trails -- Fords and ferries.

Subjects: Stiegel, Henry William, - 1729-1785.; Coleman, Robert, - 1748-1825.; Coleman family.; Grubb family.; Haldeman, Henry B.; Haldeman family.; Watts, Henry.; Jacobs family.; Potts family.; Taylor family.; Watts family.; Iron industry and trade - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Charcoal industry - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Iron and steel workers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Biography.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Biography.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 672 M382

Mark Bird, 1739-1812, Hopewell Furnace, Berks County, Pennsylvania : ironmaster & patriot

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20635

Author: Graham Daniel A.

Date of Publication: [2016]; Â©2016

Call Number: 974.816 g738

Alternate Title: Mark Bird, ironmaster & patriot

Responsibility: by Daniel A. Graham.

ISBN: 9781601265029; 1601265026

Author: Graham Daniel A.

Place of Publication: Elverson, Pennsylvania; Morgantown, PA

Publisher: Friends of Hopewell Furnace,; Masthof Press.

Physical Description: xiv, 92 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 71-91).

Contents: Early years and background: Morlatton and Birdsborough, 1739-1761 -- Birdsborough Forges, 1762-1770: ironmaster -- Pre-Revolution, 1770-1774: Birdsborough Forges and Hopewell Furnace ironmaster -- Revolutionary years, 1774-1782: political and military/Colonel Mark Bird -- Revolutionary War years, 1774-1782: Industrial/Hopewell Furnace -- Financial ruin, 1782-1788: Delaware Mills/Works, Bucks County -- Exile and death, 1788-1812: Western North Carolina -- Children of Mark and Mary (Ross) Bird -- Photos.

Summary: This work captures the American Revolutionary spirit of Hopewell Furnace's first ironmaster and founder who served as George Washington's quartermaster and provided needed supplies to Washington while he encamped at Valley Forge during the harsh winter of 1777. The book not only contains the complete Bird biography, but also illustrations of Revolutionary war cannon making, original Mark Bird correspondence, a complete bibliography of sources, and photos of Mark Bird's ironmaking pieces and other relevant historic locales. [from the publisher]